Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) - Iowa Student Internship Program

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The Iowa Student Internship Program provides grants to companies in the advanced manufacturing, biosciences, and information technology industries to help support their internship programs with a goal of transitioning the interns to full-time employment in the state upon graduation.  The Internship program is available to Iowa companies that do the following: • Are engaged in one of the targeted industries of biosciences, advanced manufacturing or information technology • Employ 500 or fewer, with a significant portion employed within the state of Iowa • Pay the intern at least twice the minimum wage • Offer the internships to students who are currently enrolled at one of Iowa’s community colleges, private colleges, regent universities or to students who graduated from an Iowa high school and attend a college or university outside of the state • An eligible student must be within two years of graduation • Awards are available up to $3,100 for any single internship or $9,300 for any single business